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Observing National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

February 7, 2012

Today is the 12th annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD) and the theme for this year’s day is “I am my Brother/Sister’s Keeper: Fight HIV/AIDS.” We know from our report, Injustice at Every Turn: A look at Black Respondents in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, that black transgender people are affected by HIV in devastating numbers. More than one-fifth of respondents were living with HIV (20.23 percent), compared to a rate of 2.64 percent for transgender respondents of all races, 2.4 percent for the general black population, and 0.60 percent of the general U.S. population.